File:Onka' Pootie (William Farquhar Collection, 1819–1823).jpg

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Summary

English: Onka' Pootie; white long armed ape. (

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Artist

Unknown author (anonymous Chinese artist).

Title

English: Onka' Pootie; white long armed ape.

Description

English: A watercolour drawing of the lar gibbon or white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar, known in Malay as ungka tangan putih). The tree may be a bignay (also known as the bugnay, bignai or currant tree, Antidesma bunius), or it may simply be from the artist's imagination. The drawing is one of 477 natural history drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore commissioned by William Farquhar.

Date

between 1819 and 1823.

Medium

watercolor on paper.

Dimensions

height: 55 cm (21.6 in); width: 38 cm (14.9 in).

Collection

National Museum of Singapore

	Native name	National Museum of Singapore
	Location	Singapore
	Coordinates	1° 17′ 48.19″ N, 103° 50′ 55.1″ E
	Established	1849
	Website	www.nationalmuseum.sg
	Authority file	: Q632689 VIAF: 4988149368844385980008 ISNI: 0000000115165359 LCCN: no2015038033 SUDOC: 069959641 WorldCat

Current location

Goh Seng Choo Gallery.
Singapore.

Accession number

Royal Asiatic Society: RAS016.115; National Museum of Singapore: SHM1995.2889.

Object history

17 June 1826: Donated in eight volumes by William Farquhar to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London.
- 1937: Six volumes lent by the Society to the Library of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Library of the Natural History Museum); two volumes of botanical drawings retained in the Society's library.
- 1991: Volumes lent to the Museum returned to the Society for valuation.
20 October 1993: Sold by the Society at a Sotheby's auction in London to Goh Geok Khim for S$3 million.
1995: Donated by Goh to the Singapore History Museum (now the National Museum of Singapore).

See Natural History Drawings below, pp. 32–33.

Inscriptions

"Onka' Pootie / White long armed ape".

Notes

"Drawings of Animals, Insects & Reptiles from Malacca" no. 20 in the Royal Asiatic Society's collection.

References

(1999) The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, 1, Singapore: Goh Geok Khim, pp. 82 ISBN: 978-981-3065-82-6.
Laura Dozier (ed.) (2010) Natural History Drawings: The Complete William Farquhar Collection: Malay Peninsula, 1803–1818, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet; National Museum of Singapore, pp. 253 ISBN: 978-981-4217-69-9. Caption: "White-handed Gibbon / Ungka Tangan Putih / Hylobates lar".

Source/Photographer

[1].

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